... Start by training them to listen to each other using non-verbal responses only Research shows that there is a strong link between the amount of eye contact people receive and their degree of participation ... listen to them, particularly while they are performing tasks Look for signs of being bored or being lost Encourage your learners to make eye contact while they are working together in pairs or ... that they ought to know an answer or that they could provide a response if they tried Use eye contact as a correction technique Nominate and invite responses by eye If the nominee is not watching,...

... limited amount of grammar and vocabulary, teachers must be aware of the contribution of other factors involved in speaking 1.3 Cultural factors in the teaching and learning of speaking skills in classrooms ... that teaching language is teaching culture Therefore, teaching culture has been integrated into language teaching programs and teaching materials in one way or another Many educators have applied ... What cultural factors influence on the teaching and the learning of speaking skills in classrooms? Culture and language exist in the same relationship as that in which, within language, meaning...

... some of the aspects of Coaching Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom Coaching emotional intelligence in the classroom This book is underpinned by a creative/thinking skills agenda, at the heart ... overlaps the larger one, the thought or feeling is being expressed in some way See Figure 1.2 Coaching emotional intelligence in the classroom Figure 1.1 Linking game Stepping in and out of the Picture ... then they might steal from the rich If the poor stole from the rich then they’d be put in jail If all the poor were in jail those outside would be rich 39 Coaching emotional intelligence in the...

... pluck a frozen seabird off the shelves, and then hefts the large carcass onto an examining table… and starts to tear away the rigid plastic wrapping NEVINS: “Last year we got about 200 samples ... if any, are harmful in our water and what to about it For QUEST, I’m Amy Standen, KQED Radio News NOTES/QUESTIONS MERCURY IN THE BAY PART RADIO TRANSCRIPT – p.1 OLD TAPE: Almaden California A ... our lobby area and it is a secure facility.” Jim Scott is the water quality lab manager for the Santa Clara Valley Water District, based in San Jose He swipes a key card to let us into the district’s...

... between the a North and the South b East and the West c United States and Great Britain d colored and the white >a 34 Some improvements in the bus service in this town a have recently been ... audit d deposit > a 16 They used to go skiing in the mountain every winter, but for the past five years a they don’t go b they haven’t gone c they are not going d they didn’t go b 17 Professor ... loss II Find the mistake: The twins look so alike their grandmother a The twins b look c so d alike > d Barbara’s appearance at the reception with the late Mayor’s window cause something of a...

... identify features in the shared text to use in writing; to begin to incorporate the techniques modelled by the teacher into his/her own writing in guided/independent work Timing: • during the whole-class ... and discussing the effect of using these grammatical features in her/his own writing Timing: • during the whole-class teaching segment of the Literacy Hour; • Shared Reading and Writing sessions ... promote: a strengthened understanding of the link between reading and writing; the development of shared writing into sustained, independent writing focus on: working from examples of written text to...

... in the areas of speaking and listening 33 10262_CO5.QXD 21/2/07 10:14 am Page 34 In the Classroom Introducing your class to storytelling When I’m working in a class the first thing I is ask them ... the story, rather than being instantly drawn into the plot Remember the key to short stories, whether writing or performing them, is to get straight in there with the action Yes you can set the ... introduction to explaining what storytelling is When I first heard the bare bones of this tale the ending was different I took the liberty of changing it for the purpose of storytelling in the classroom, ...